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urbpan ([personal profile] urbpan) wrote2007-12-01 08:33 am
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A short criticism

I'm about a quarter the way through Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. Does anyone else think that Bryson spends an inordinate amount of time and ink scrutinizing the warts of scientists?

[identity profile] antarcticlust.livejournal.com 2007-12-03 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
If you've read other books of his, that's really just Bryson's style - he's very irreverent. I think part of the point was to make this an interesting science book for non-science types.